Father’s Day Celebration Started 14th March Ending 15th December

Here are the dates that I get from Wikipedia about Father’s Day celebration for the year 2008. Take note that Father’s day celebrated different day in different countries. Check out when will be Father’s Day in your country.

I got shocked to see that the Father’s Day Celebration started as early as March 14^th and ends only on 15^th December.

- March 14 – Iran

- March 19 – Belgium (St. Joseph’s day), Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Spain

- May 8 – South Korea (Parent’s Day)

- June 1 – Lithuania

- June 5 – Denmark

- June 8 – Austria, Ecuador, Belgium

- June 15 – Argentina, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Guyana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, UK, US, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

- June 17 – El Salvador, Guatemala

- June 23 – Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda

- July 13 – Uruguay

- July 27 – Dominican Republic

- August 8 – Taiwan, China

- August 10 – Brazil

- September 7 – Australia, New Zealand

- September 11 – Nepal

- October 5 – Luxembourg

- November 9 – Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden

- December 5 – Thailand

New Entrecard Features, 75000 Credits Giveaways

Today, I received an email from Entrecard admin and I found out that there is a huge upgrade done during short period of time. The most important update is Linked sites. This was requested from many entrecard users in entrecard blog. It is like linking your other blog account or just add another new blog into your existing account. You can always switch to another account simply by clicking switch. You can send credits, advertise, etc among your entrecard account easily now. It is so great to see this features as we able see other sites of our droppers.

Plus, there is an update in Campaign. Once mouse over on any image in Campaign, there are two rows of details showed on each image lead to
- Popularity Ranking
- View Site
- View Profile
This makes easier for us to visit any sites profile or visit their blog straight without visiting their profile. This can save a lot of time.

Another update that so useful for serious droppers is in your "Inbox Drops". Now, all the drops cards are separated under date. You can see correctly which cards dropped on you on certain day. Now, it is easier for us to return anyone's drops. I feel very happy to see this feature, as now I don't have to miss to return any drops single day.

By just adding another blog to your existing account or linking another entrecard account to you, you are going to stand a chance to win 15,000 credits giveaway. There is a new ebook version 1 released by entrecard. This is the first ebook that I ever seen in entrecard network. Check it out here! You need to relax a little as it may take some time to download (5.87Mb size) There is step-by-step guide for new beginners to advance entrecard users. All I can say, it is a great guide that ever released on entrecard.

By just writing about these new features and and a link to the ebook, I'm getting 2000 credits. You can also earn this 2000 credits by spreading about it in your blog and inform entrecard here about your post. I believe the number of active blogs will increase to 10k or 20k in very short period of time after this tremendous upgrades and super guide ebook.

Entrecard Serious Droppers Monitoring Ends Today

I have been monitoring Entrecard Inbox for last 30 days (April 16th - May 15th). I have collected 1927 site/blogs from Entrecard Inbox drops during this period. From this list, 197 sites not showing Entrecard widget. I will assume that this sites have left Entrecard network. I can say, approximately 10% of the Entrecard users leaving every month. I'm adding about 30 new sites a day in my monitoring list recently and that is an average of 900 sites a month. That is about 45% increase in total users of Entrecard each month.

So, would you like to stay with Entrecard or leave is up to you. For me, incoming 45% and outgoing is 10%. I'm earning new traffic of 35% every month. So, I'm going to stay with them. Almost 70 - 80% blogs I have visited have Entrecard widget on it. I'm getting about 200 visits a day from Entrecard alone (75% of my total visits) and my blog Alexa daily ranking once hit 98k. That is an achievement and credits to Entrecard.

And there is about 20% sites never drops even though I have dropped on their blog several times. This is dead sites and I won't list them in my serious droppers list. I'm compiling the list in bookmarks (group of 10s and 50s). Also, I'm going to list my serious droppers in Atniz

The list will be ready in 2 days (18th May). Plus, I will share a few tips that can get you higher inbox drops and maybe you can hit below 100k alexa ranking in just one day. I think I should create an ebook and sell it, hehehehe... Don't worry, I won't do that. Actually, it works for me. I've tried twice and each time I can see my daily rankings in Alexa (87k first attempt and 98k my second attempt). This would be a bonus tips to share once the list is ready.

I don't ask anything in return. If can, please write about my work in you blog post, just a single line with link to my blog will help or blogroll me. I have been using my both blogs (Atniz and Reenashwina) for Entrecard Inbox monitoring purpose.

Are You In My TOP Spots?

I'm sure you have heard about Scratchback before but I just would like to share my experience with Scratchback. You can see on my top left, there is a list title "Are you in my top spots?" Anyone can be in this list as long as you paid $5.

There is a pretty good reason why it has been set to minimum $5 per link in Top Spots, partly I agree with Scratchback. I earned $4.09 after 2 weeks joined them. That is for 1 link purchased. Actually, the cost is $5 per link purchase, but there is other fees I guess. I only have a balance of $4.09 in my account. There is a withdrawal limit of $25 minimum. So, I need at least 7 links in order to withdrawal.

I'm going to place this widget on my other blog as well and hopefully can get 7 links within 2 months. I choose 5 links per widget and plans to keep it that way. Is there anyone have successfully withdrawn money from Scratchback? Please share your experience.

Back From Hometown

I was not around for two days now. Feel like so long away from computer. I went back to my hometown where I don't have Internet facility. I missed blogging, even it is just for 2 days. Anyone feels the same like me? Yeah, this what I call "Blog Addict" hehe.. Maybe, we should create a network of blog addicts together. I had great time with my family in hometown and can't wait to go back again.

It is 1.11am now, and I'm still blogging. I just checked my google ads earnings, comments - replied, entrecards ads, etc that will take around 30 minutes. Yeah, I almost forgot to mention that I have started to play Forex. Yes, I have played before and lost some money. Now, I have started back again. I'm just playing with virtual money for now. I'm going to play with virtual money for at least another 6 months from now before using real money. Six month is a very good start for playing forex as I already have basics of another 1 year playing forex earlier.

My online earnings for this month has a little prospect as my ad earnings increases slightly. Not much as my target for this month is $20. I hope I can meet this target as I can raise my new target for June at $30. Sincerely, I don't have a Paypal account and it is difficult for me to sell those Entrecards credits. So, I'm planning to get one Paypal account sooner. I'm going to Al Rajhi Bank (Georgetown, Penang Branch) to get a personal account with Visa Debit card. You will get your card at instant and able to use at instant too. That is so fast if we compared to any other banks. Hopefully, I can get a Verified Paypal account sooner.

Wish me luck guys and adios.

SponsoredReviews Approved me!

Today I got shocked again when I received a mail from SponsoredReviews, titled "Your Account Has Been Approved - SponsoredReviews.com". This is my second paid post network account approved. Although, I got my account approved previously, I'm still not posting any sponsored posts yet. I'm trying to view some of the paid posts from other users as a sample. I do not have any experience in writing articles for sale or post any paid post before. This will be my first attempt. I hope it will be a good start.

I have signed up for an affiliate program in SponsoredReviews and placed the widget in my blog. My formula to keep my blog active not full of commercial posts. After every 2 normal posts, I will post one sponsored post. I have heard so many friends have lost their page rank and traffic due to extensive paid posts. If we lose Page Rank and traffic, no one would even advertise on our blog. So, I'm trying to keep 2:1 and choose carefully on the topic which I really enjoy to write about.

I hope to get good support from my friends here for all the sponsored reviews I made. Please leave a constructive comments as it will give more credits towards these posts. For those who don't have any paid post and actively blogging, please register. You might make some extra cash over here.

SMORTY Approved Me!

It has been almost a year now since I started blogging. Blogging was not my preference last year, but this year it has changed totally. Today, without blogging, I can't really sleep. It is that addictive. So, if you are new to blogging world, BEWARE!!! IT'S ADDICTIVE!!!

I have been approved by Smorty. This is the first time I got approved by any paid post agent in this one year blogging. I am still a beginner in blogging world and exploring Smorty now. I know, when it comes to ad post, this will chase away many visitors. So, I will try to keep my post on 2:1 basis. Every 2 new post of non commercial and one ad post.

If you have any experience with Smorty and would like to share it, please do so as this can be great guidance for me and other new beginners like me. After all, what is blogging about, sharing information right?

So, from now on I have one more new income channel other than advertisements. I hope this month's income will shoot up. My present target is $20 and standing at $3.80 for now. Hopefully, Smorty will help me to reach my target faster.

101th Post in REENASHWINA

I still remember a few of my friends ask me to start blogging. I don not know that it could be very addictive at first. Now, I'm seriously addicted to it. I love to visit other's blog and write sincere comments. I always ping my new post in Petalingstreet and read most of the blogs from there. Plus, I'm also trying to be active in Blogacatalog and Myblogblog.

Things that I have achieved so far:
- Getting 200 visitors per day (6000 visits per month)
- Maintained an average of 10 posts every month for last 6 months
- Page rank increased from 1 to 3.
- Weekly Alexa traffic at 150k now.
- Ad earnings at $13 per month.
- Most importantly, gained many online friends.

My 201th posts target:
- Getting 300 - 500 visitors per day ( 9000 to 15000 visits per month)
- An average of 30 posts a month.
- Page rank target to 5
- Monthly Alexa ranking to below 100k
- Ad earnings target at $50 per month.

Here is the survey on visitors dropping to my site counted from 49 votes:
75% - Entrecard
10% - Other blogs
6% - Google
1% - Bookmark
1% - Myblogblog
1% - Blogcatalog
1% - Others
0% - RSS
0% - Yahoo

Looks like, I have really utilized Entrecard and need to take care of other methods now. I will keep dropping for EC and concentrate more on other traffic options as well. For those new to blogging, please join Entrecard. Thats all for now, adios.

Google Page Rank Updated Today!!!

Have you check your Google Page Rank today?

Last update was 1st of March 2008, and I seriously believed that the next update will be in Jun 2008. Never ever thought that it gonna be 29th April 2008. Looks like they are updating it every month now.

My page rank was 1 previously and now it is 3. I'm very happy to see and I feel much more appreciated. I need to take my family to Pizza to celebrate it. I will try to improve my postings and try to get higher page ranks in next month. There are also some increase in my close monitoring sites as below:

- Reenashwina - From pagerank 1 to 3 (increased by 2)
- Womentheme - From pagerank 0 to 2 (increased by 2)
- Megafitzone - From Page rank 1 to Page rank 2. (increased by 1)
- Motherita - From page rank 4 to 2 (dropped by 2)
- Ayushrao - From 0 to 0 (no changes)
- Mybodybuildinglog - From pagerank 3 to 3 (no changes)
- Atniz - From 0 to 0 (new blog, less than a month old) (no changes)

Overall, I'm more than satisfied to get good rankings and I believed that I don't really put much effort on my other blogs and gained some credits too. I will try to find some time to not entangled by entrecard alone and start concentrating more on my other blogs as well. This does not mean that I won't monitoring any sites. I will be still monitoring my Inbox from Atniz and Reenashwina blogs every single day and add new sites in my monitoring list.

I have plans to group 50 sites in one bookmark extension, so that you can open all 50 sites together using TabMixPlus using Firefox browser. Once you click open, you can have your tea or just go to wash room (wait 5 minutes) to load all the pages. Then, you can able to do the drops as fast as lightning speed. If you follow this method, you can drop all 600 in just 90 minutes max. I will explain properly with all the details once the list is ready. But, please give importance to your inbox cards before doing this.

600 Drops A Day

Entrecard has become one of the goldmine for many bloggers. Now, you can see top bloggers ranking is around 100k alexa or lower, if you are a new to blogging world, you can match this figure within a few months.

Traffic is the key word here. Most of the traffics are sold at higher price and you wouldn't want to pay for it. I'm blogging to earn not spend. Plus, during early stage, I'm using blogger free hosting and domain service for this blog. Once the traffic is on positive lane (now at 180k weekly average) will change to personal hosted site using wordpress, godaddy and hostgator.

If you are a beginner and would like to match your traffic ranking to those who are a superstar in blogging world in a short period of time and for free, just use entrecard. This is the simplest and easiest gateway to get traffic to your site which need effort only, no money required. Plus, you can earn some money by just selling the credits over ebay. Just type "entrecard" in ebay and you can see the average pricing for entrecard credits (1000ec/$4).

I'm personally dropping 600 cards a day (limit per IP set by Entrecard). Limit for each blog drops is 300 cards. I have 2 blogs and keep dropping 600 drops a day. I'm earning an average of 1000 credits a day ($4 if sold in ebay) just from Entrecard. Not, including ads revenues. Not including paid posts (which is not so good for blogs hosted in blogspot). I'm expecting to get below 100k Alexa before registering for private domain and hosting it on private hosting service.

This is not too far with entrecard. Anyone agree with me? How many of you drop 600 cards a day? Please share your views too.

Entrecard Message

I have been compiling a list of serious droppers list for a week now. Left another 3 weeks to get it done. I received a comment stating that - if we continuously dropping the same site every single day, the blog owner might not entertain our drops. Or, if the person need to drop every single day and get tired of it, they might give up entrecarding or blogging.

I know this is just a point of view of my visitor, but when come to think of it, it is logic too. Tell me, who is not tired of dropping entrecard every day? I'm dropping 600 cards (2 blogs) every day. It's like a full-time job here, luckily i'm a house-wife. What about others out there? Seriously, when come to think of this, the idea of serious droppers list just got expanded.

Instead of giving 100 serious droppers list, I'm going to give 1000 list of serious droppers. I will provide this list, the top sites will gave good file ranks, top low return drops will have lower file ranks. If they never drop, don't worry, I won't include them in this list. For this, I might need at least 2000 - 3000 list of blogs. I'm collecting about 100 - 200 blogs every day in my monitoring list. I have about 1300 site now in my record doing daily monitoring on their drops.

So, be end of this 3 weeks time, you will be able to download a firefox bookmark file containing 1000 serious droppers list. Seriously, I'm spending about 6 -8 hours a day for the list creation. I hope anyone reads this and have good interest in entrecard can link my site and spread the words to your friends.

The list ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) : 17th May 2008.

Bonus Tips:
If you have dropped certain number, you will see the below message -
1-50: Thanks
51-100: Go! Go!
101-150: Alright!
151-200: Wicked!
201-250: Yeehah!
251-300: Awesome!
301: 300 per day

New List Will Be Ready Soon!!!

It has become like a game of addiction when deal with Entrecard. Most of my friends are asking me to add their links in the serious droppers list. For now, the list is freezed. No more adds or delete will be done here. I have been collecting a list of sites, now stands at 924 sites from Entrecard. I'm adding about 100 - 200 sites a day on average basis. My target is to create a list of at least 2000 sites. Choosing the best out of it will the hardest task.

I'm going to create a list of Extremely Serious Return Droppers where the return rate is 100% within 48 hours and at least 80% during first 24 hours. This is the hardest part. If within 48 hours, it is easy to create the list, but getting about an average of 80% during 24 hours, drags my time longer.

The list length going to be 100 sites. At first, I plant to create 300 sites, but it is a little hard to monitor all 300 sites in one day where I'm not allowed to drop more than 300 drops per account. So, the list length is final and it gonna be 100 Extremely Serious Droppers List.

Please take note that, I will keep monitoring all this 300 sites on daily bases as well as other sites too. The list will be udated on weekly basis, by adding new sites and deleting any sites that don't drops or low return drops. One of the visitor asked me to provide the list in Bookmark, for 100 sites it can be done. Maybe, I will provide new lists every week once the list is updated. I just hope everyone can return their Inbox drops, thats all.

If anyone got any suggestion, please advice. Thank you

66.7% Serious Droppers List Ready!

It was 62.8% the best I had previously, today checked it is 66.7% return drops from my list. It is a little hard for me to get 100% droppers list, but nothing is impossible. So, I'm trying to take some measure here to keep track of my inbox blogs.

Yes, I have created an excel file name ECSeriousDroppersList and list down all my droppers. I take count of each drop they made to my site. This is a 30 days study as I will not increase or delete any links from existing list. I will keep on dropping to all the sites in this links. And, I keep track of those who return my drops.

For anyone interested to be in the list, please drop your card in my box and I will 100% return your drops and automatically your site will be in my monitor list. I will keep track of your drops as well. End of 30 days, I will create a new list of top to low return droppers counter list. Plus, I will keep monitoring all the cards I received in my EC Inbox every single day. If I miss today, I will check the statistic and will monitor any drops that I missed.

All this effort done manually and needs a lot of time. But, I think it is worth to do it as I can increase my traffic rankings as well as my visitors too. Thanks you so much for visiting and dropping in my site. Keep dropping as many as you could in this last 30 days, you might be on top of the list.

House Hunting Tips

Are you looking to rent a house? The whole thing can be a big pain. Double check with our guide below to ensure that you have covered the important bases before you actually make up your mind and put down a deposit.

1. Plan you budget.

Find out how much you are able to spend on utilities, rent, and also on transportation to work or college. Then it will be easier for you to narrow down which housing area to consider.

2. Confirming the location

Choose a safe neighborhood that is not too far from your workplace or college and it is easily accessible to public transport, especially if you don’t have a transport on your own.

3. Shop around.

Look at plenty of houses on the condition of the houses and also to compare rental rates. Compare the cost of the furnished and unfurnished units. See if the owner is willing to throw in a few items such as air-cond, water heater, washing machine, fridge, etc for a little more in rental. Take your own time to look around and don’t be afraid to ask questions. If you are satisfied, then decide.

4. Sign on the tenancy agreement.

Don’t feel pressure to sign the agreement until you are satisfied with the terms. So, take your time to go trough the tenancy agreement in detail.

Have You Check ALEXA TODAY?

As usual, I opened my browser and click Alexa to check on any updates on my weekly ranking. There is one new gold image was jut below search column. It's the announcement of the New Alexa programs. I noticed that the ranking falls tremendously. Also, I have checked ranking for my other sites, the re is huge drops in alexa ranking. I have no idea whether it is for good or make it worse.

There are few noticeable differences in new alexa:
- Other countries ranking grouped and cannot see details.
- Ranking shown for 9 months stretch only.
- The gold button image announcement.
- No site links counts details.

However, they promise to deliver better programs in weeks or months to come. Let us hope for the best.

I still prefer the old system if we compare it now.

What you prefer?